Wounded Bird of Paradise

by Essinger, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781843102564
• ISBN10: 1843102560
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781846420122
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY
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Summary

When Mabelline sets out on a journey to visit her pen pal Rosa, she doesn't expect to be staying quite so long as she does. Mabelline quickly takes Rosa and her son Carlos to her heart, but she knows right away there is something different about the boy. When tragedy occurs, Mabelline is forced to be responsible for Carlos as he struggles to fit into a world based on rules he doesn't understand, and finds himself in serious trouble. Set in a tropical world of beautiful flowers and dazzling sun, Wounded Bird of Paradise is a story about love in an unlikely family, threaded with problems faced by someone with Asperger Syndrome. Carlos is a young man with Asperger Syndrome struggling to fit into an intimidating world. Mabelline is a woman who reluctantly takes a journey that ends up changing her life. This unlikely pair takes us on an emotional journey that warms the heart whilst illustrating the difficulties someone with Asperger Syndrome undergoes trying to hold down a

Table of Contents

Prologue	9	(44)
1 Mabelline	11	(6)
2 Flower Shop	17	(4)
3 Dinner for Two	21	(4)
4 Rosa's Bedroom	25	(6)
5 The Boy Carlos	31	(4)
6 Storm	35	(4)
7 Rosa is Ill	39	(4)
8 Carlos Starts Work	43	(6)
9 Second Day at Work	49	(4)
10 Carlos at Home	53	(4)
11 Trouble at Work	57	(4)
12 Jemina	61	(6)
13 The Tailor's Shop	67	(4)
14 The Nursery Sheds	71	(4)
15 Carlos Buys a Tuxedo	75	(4)
16 Party	79	(8)
17 Mabelline's Club	87	(4)
18 Police Station	91	(6)
19 Supervision Order	97	(4)
20 In the Cafe	101	(6)
21 Plant Inspection	107	(6)
22 Perspectives	113	(6)
23 Goats	119	(6)
24 Brown's Hotel	125	(6)
25 Goodbye Carlos	131	(6)
26 Airport	137